True to the Highlander (The Novels of Loch Moigh) by Barbara Longley

[dannylionthe1st]

Hey guys. It's been so long. Now, I have to say, originally, this was going to be a bookwin! And then I wrote my review... But first, let's get the synopsis out of the way huh? I copied and pasted from Amazon for a reason.

"Treachery rules the Highlands of 1423. With their king captured by the English, Scottish nobles plot to ransom James behind

Comments

[ljlee]

Well, it looks like the synopsis writer did a good job... of mispackaging the novel as a political drama wrapped around a romance. Maybe it was even what the author originally planned to write. It's almost like she was searching for things to fail on--from plot failure to characterization failure to ablism to a decalaration of future incest with a current newborn. Ewwww. I suppose it never crossed our boy's mind that the infant in his arms might not grow up to want to marry her brother, or they might not turn out to be compatible? And our "strong, independent" heroine from the twenty-first century doesn't bother to set him straight on this point? So wrong on so many levels.

Because I have some ambitions in the direction of historical fiction, I take as my guiding light George Eliot's classic essay Silly Novels by Lady Novelists where she has particularly choice words about silly historical novels

[dannylionthe1st]

Luckily for me I didn't buy the book but borrowed it from the Amazon Kindle Library. I almost bought it because it was on sale for $2 I think. But then I decided to wait and see if I liked the book first

[youjik33]

I don't agree about the incest -- I feel like if they grow up knowing they're not blood related all along, I dunno, I'm fine with it. Buuuut everything else sounds pretty bad, and a little kid declaring that he's going to marry a baby is just strange.

[dannylionthe1st]

Here's the problem with your statement about them growing up. How do you propose that can happen without her birth parents being mean? They're children and he'll be growing up with them. Don't you think it would be cruel for her parents to basically say to her. "OH no no no! He's not your 'real' brother. He's not related to us at all. Don't call him brother. Call him 'name'." I see no way you can spin that without it being cruel. He's adopted. He's being raised by the same parents as she is. And what you're suggesting that it'll be alright if they make sure that he knows that he's not their child. Which, in any child's mind, would come up with that they aren't as worthy as the children who were born to the parents

[eugene79152]

Treachery rules the Highlands of 1423 With their king captured by the English Scottish nobles plot t